by Sujit D'Mello
November 7, 2013
We talk about some of the Storage options available in Windows Azure, specifically Blobs and Tables. We will cover Queues at a later episode when talking about the Service Bus.
- Blob Containers
- Programming
- Page/Block blobs
- Upload tools
- Local and Geo Replication
- Redundancy
- Security
- Tables - basic structure
- How to create your own table structures
- LINQ syntax for querying tables.
- REST API for storage access
- Current challenges using storage and some workarounds.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode4.mp3
Updates
- Storage: Import/Export Hard Disk Drives to your Storage Accounts - securely ship hard disk drives to move data.
- VMs: New VM Gallery UI, ACL support for VIPs via portal;
- Web Sites: WebSocket and Remote Debugging Support
- Notification Hubs: Segmented customer push notification support with tag expressions
- TFS & GIT: Continuous Delivery Support for Web Sites + Cloud Services
- Developer Analytics and Monitoring: New Relic support for Web Sites + Mobile Services in partnership with New Relic with Windows Azure Management Portal making it really easy to configure.
- Service Bus: Support for partitioned queues and topics.
- Billing: New Billing Alert Service that sends emails notifications when your bill hits a threshold you define
- New Windows Azure Cache Service http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/cache/
Links
Windows Azure PowerShell CmdLets
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj152841.aspx
Announcing the preview of a new Windows Azure service: Windows Azure Scheduler
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/scheduler/
http://alexandrebrisebois.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/create-database-diagrams-of-your-windows-azure-sql-databases/